Category: D

In conveyancing. A deed executed or purporting to be executed in parts, between two or more parties, and distinguished by having the edge of the paper or parchment on which it is

In Spanish law. The real and effective delivery of an object in the execution of a contract.

In old English law. Condemned ; prohibited by law ; unlawful. Damnatus coitus, an unlawful connection.

One who gives and yet retains does not give effectually. Tray. Lat. Max. 129. Or, one who gives, yet retains, [possession,] gives nothing.

A first principle ; a thing given ; a date.

A Latin preposition, signifying of; by; from ; out of; affecting; concerning; respecting.

Of art and part A phrase in old Scotch law.

Writ for not removing goods. A writ anciently directed to the sheriffs of London, commanding them, in cases where a writ of error was brought by a defendant against whom a judgment

See CI.AMEA ADMITTENDA, etc.

Writ to continue an assise. Reg. Orig. 2176.

rom day to day. Bract fol. 2056.

A writ commanding the sheriff to arrest one who was excommunicated, and imprison him rill he should become reconciled to the iliurch. 3 Bl. Comm. 102. Smith v. Nelson, IS Vt. 511.

Of breach of faith or fidelity. 4 Reeve. Eng. Law. 90.

Of those who are to be put on assises. The title of a statute passed 21 Edw. I. defining the qualifications of jurors. Crabb, Eng. Daw, 167, 189; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law,

Writ of free fishery. A species of quod pennittat. Reg. Orig. 155.

Cro. Jac. 420. A prohibition lies not against a newly-erected mill.

Span. By word; by parol. White, New Reeop. b. 2, tit. 19, c. 3,

In the civil law. A contract by which one who bas a claim difficult to recover agrees with another to give a part, for the purpose of obtaining his services to recover

L. Fr. Of his or her life; of ills own life; as distinguished from pur autre vie, for another’s life. Litt.

Of testaments. The title of the fifth part of the Digests or Pandects; comprising the twenty-eighth to the thirty-sixth books, both inclusive.